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Rope tow

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Rope tow

Although rope tows are strongly associated with ski club fields, they were also used on commercial fields, such as Coronet Peak. The rope tow there, installed in 1947, was designed by Bill Hamilton, better known as the inventor of the Hamilton jet boat.

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Andrew Troup, Skiing – Commercial skifields, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/11853/rope-tow (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Andrew Troup, published 2 March 2009.